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ECOTOUR PROJECT

About Ecotour

The project is necessary for the formation of specialists to acquire the skills necessary to ensure sustainable supply of tourism services and for change the mentality of tourist operators regarding the social responsibility through environmental protection.

A new professional qualification will be defined and proposed for the labour market at European Level: Tourism Energy Manager.

Project Results

The objective of the project is the exchange of experience, information, concepts, various methods and strategies and their implementation and experimentation.

One of the aspects of the added value for the project is that all results will be translated into Romanian, English, German, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish and Italian so that they are accessible to the target groups and especially the general public.

Events

The awareness-raising process is essential because the main problem found in managers, administrators and executive panels of Touristic European companies is the lack of knowledge in setting up strategic objectives for energy consuming companies, planning and maximizing resources usage, monitoring of energy policies, management of energy efficiency, sources of renewable energies.

Partners

The project, ECOTOUR - Management of Efficient Energy in Tourism Industry, is financed through Lifelong Learning Program 2013, Action: Leonardo Da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation.The consortium of the project is formed by university foundations, research institutes, regional authorities, tourism association, VET providers, and energy efficiency associations from Romania, Austria, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and Finland.

| News ECOTOUR

“The importance of building new partnership models for the sustainable development of cultural tourism gained particular relevance at the 99th session of the UNWTO Executive Council meeting in Samarkand. The Council also debated the latest international tourism trends and their impact on ...

The 2015 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards programme launched yesterday a call for applications from all travel and tourism companies who are setting the sustainability benchmark in their field.
Announcing the launch, David Scowsill, CEO and President of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), sai...

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